#toads

[frog-toad-daily]

Day 101

Treacherous Roads

[nymla]

Hold all your thumbs for me that these survive! I'm starting a bisque fire today 🙏🐸

A long while back I was sculpting a mushroom branch, and that thing broke apart in my hands in the greenware stage. But I saved the mushrooms and teamed them up with these toads instead. Lets seeee how they turn out.

PS, I have an email list - you can join that to be notified of my shop updates, and see previews. 🌿

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[toadschooled]

I mean no disrespect to prior toads OK? But this lady has to be the cutest toad I've seen all summer. Looked and felt like a little ball of dough. VERY CUTE FACE! Tiny, unimpressive hops & no reaction to being lifted for pictures. Moved her off the trail and she just sat there. Amazing specimen & perfect in every way. I'll remember her forever

[important-animal-images]

[toadbreath]

starbucks secret menu item

[enchantedbook]

'Toad's Tea - Party' by Beatrix Potter, c. 1905

[cuties-in-codices]

nero giving birth to a toad

illustration from a copy of the "weltchronik" ("chronicle of the world") by rudolf von ems, bavaria, c. 1400-1410

source: Getty Museum Collection, Ms. 33 (88.MP.70), fol. 226r

[claypigeonpottery]

@notsarahgordon your mug's been carved and now it just has to dry!

this mug is based on her art:

[happyheidi]

Frogs wearing flower hats!

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[frog-toad-daily]

Day 102

You’re Finally Awake

[anactualfrog]

Round like a stone

[markscherz]

Mr Frog guy, what is the different between a frog & a toad?

This is probably the second most common question I receive, after "what's your favourite frog".

There is no difference, because this is a false dichotomy. It is not a comparison of equal categories. Toads are one of the ~55 frog families. Toads unequivocally are frogs.

If you want to know the difference between toads and some other family or clade of frogs, you would either have to be more specific, or identify features that are unique to toads—synapomorphies of Bufonidae. These are the differences between toads and all other frogs.

Synapomorphies of Bufonidae include the parotoid glands (but not present in all toads), some funky muscular arrangements, a weird bone in the skull, and the Bidder's organ, which is basically a backup ovary in male toads that allows them to become reproductively active females if their testes are damaged or removed surgically.

[toadschooled]

This one's kind of not large just being honest

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[paintfroge]

Bundled